PROJECT AGREEMENT

(EXECUTION VERSION)


WINDSOR-ESSEX PARKWAY PROJECT

 

THIS PROJECT AGREEMENT is made as of the 15th day of December, 2010


BETWEEN:

ONTARIO INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS CORPORATION, a non-share capital corporation continued under the Ontario Infrastructure Projects Corporation Act, S.O. 2006, c.9, Schedule I, as amended, as agent for Her Majesty The Queen in Right of Ontario, as represented by the Minister of Infrastructure


AND:

WINDSOR ESSEX MOBILITY GROUP GP [REDACTED]

(“Project Co”)


WHEREAS:

A.
HMQ wishes to procure a new freeway in Windsor, Ontario, as well as service roads, interchanges, landscaped parklands and recreational walking and cycling trails surrounding the freeway.
B.
Project Co will provide the Project Operations, which Project Operations include the design, construction, financing and maintenance of the Parkway (the “Project”).
C.
HMQ and Project Co wish to enter into this project agreement (the “Project Agreement”), which sets out the terms and conditions upon which Project Co shall perform the Project Operations.
D.
The construction of the Parkway will have a positive impact on the entire Ontario economy by improving the movement of people, goods and services in a safe and efficient manner across the Canada/United States border at the Detroit and St. Clair Rivers.
E.
The Project will proceed as an alternative financing and procurement project and complies with the principles set out in MOI‟s Building a Better Tomorrow: An Infrastructure Planning, Financing and Procurement Framework for Ontario’s Public Sector (the “IPFP Framework”).
F.
The IPFP Framework establishes 5 fundamental principles which guide the financing and procurement of public infrastructure projects in Ontario:
1.
The public interest is paramount.
2.
Value for money must be demonstrable.
3.
Appropriate public control/ownership must be preserved.
4.
Accountability must be maintained.
5.
All processes must be fair, transparent and efficient.
G.

Public ownership and control of the Parkway will be preserved.


 

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46.4

No Other Rights to Terminate

(a)
Project Co shall have no right or entitlement to terminate this Project Agreement, nor to accept any repudiation of this Project Agreement, and shall not exercise, nor purport to exercise, any such right or entitlement except as expressly set forth in this Project Agreement.

47.

RELIEF EVENT AND NON-DEFAULT TERMINATION

47.1

Termination for Relief Event

(a)
Subject to Section 47.1(b), if a Relief Event occurs and the effects of the Relief Event continue for 180 days from the date on which the Party affected gives notice to the other Party pursuant to Section 43.3(c), either Party may, at any time thereafter, terminate this Project Agreement by written notice to the other Party having immediate effect, provided that the effects of the Relief Event continue during such period to prevent either Party from performing a material part of its obligations under this Project Agreement.
(b)
Neither Party shall be entitled to exercise its right to terminate this Project Agreement in accordance with Section 47.1(a) if Project Co or a Project Co Party recovers, or is entitled to recover, under any insurance policy, or would have recovered if it had complied with the requirements of this Project Agreement in respect of insurance or the terms of any policy of insurance required under this Project Agreement, an amount which, together with all Monthly OM&R Payments for the relevant Payment Period or Payment Periods, is equal to or greater than the Senior Debt Service Amount and the Junior Debt Service Amount for the relevant Payment Period or Payment Periods.

47.2

Termination for Force Majeure

(a)
If an event of Force Majeure occurs and the Parties, having used commercially reasonable efforts, have failed to reach agreement on any modification to this Project Agreement pursuant to Section 44.5 within 180 days from the date on which the Party affected gives notice to the other Party as set out therein, either Party may, at any time thereafter, terminate this Project Agreement by written notice to the other Party having immediate effect, provided that the effects of the event of Force Majeure continue during such period to prevent either Party from performing a material part of its obligations under this Project Agreement.

47.3

Termination for Convenience

(a)
HMQ shall, in its sole discretion and for any reason whatsoever, be entitled to terminate this Project Agreement at any time on 180 days‟ written notice to Project Co.
(b)
In the event of notice being given by HMQ in accordance with this Section 47.3, HMQ shall, at any time before the expiration of such notice, be entitled to direct Project Co to refrain from commencing, or allowing any third party to commence, the Works, or any part or parts of the Works, or the OM&R Work, or any element of the OM&R Work, where such Works or OM&R Work have not yet been commenced.
 

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49.

COMPENSATION ON TERMINATION

49.1

Compensation on Termination

(a)
If this Project Agreement is terminated in accordance with the terms hereof, then Schedule 23 - Compensation on Termination shall apply and HMQ shall pay Project Co any applicable compensation on termination.

49.2

Full and Final Settlement

(a)
Except as otherwise provided in Section 49.2(b), any compensation paid pursuant to this Section 49, including pursuant to Schedule 23 - Compensation on Termination in the total amount owing thereunder, shall be in full and final settlement of any claims, demands and proceedings of Project Co and HMQ, and each shall be released from all liability to the other in relation to any breaches or other events leading to such termination of this Project Agreement, and the circumstances leading to such breach or termination, and Project Co and HMQ shall be precluded from exercising all other rights and remedies in respect of any such breach or termination whether in contract, tort, restitution, statute, at common law or otherwise.
(b)
Section 49.2(a) shall be without prejudice to:
(i)
any liability of either Party to the other, including under the indemnities contained in this Project Agreement, that arose prior to the Termination Date (but not from the termination itself or the events leading to such termination) to the extent such liability has not already been set off pursuant to Section 34.13 or taken into account pursuant to Schedule 23 - Compensation on Termination in determining or agreeing upon the HMQ Default Termination Sum, Adjusted Highest Qualifying Tender Price, Adjusted Estimated Fair Value, Non-Default Termination Sum, Prohibited Acts Termination Sum or any other termination sum, as the case may be;
 

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PROJECT AGREEMENT – SCHEDULE 23

EXECUTION VERSION

2.

 Compensation on Termination for HMQ Default or Convenience


2.1

Compensation

(a)
If Project Co terminates this Project Agreement pursuant to Section 46 of this Project Agreement or HMQ terminates this Project Agreement pursuant to Section 47.3 of this Project Agreement, HMQ shall pay to Project Co the HMQ Default Termination Sum.
(b)
The “HMQ Default Termination Sum” shall be an amount equal to the aggregate of:
(i)
the Senior Debt Amount and the Senior Debt Makewhole;
(ii)
the Junior Debt Amount and the Junior Debt Makewhole;
(iii)
any amount payable by HMQ to Project Co in accordance with Sections 43.2(b) and 44.2(b) of this Project Agreement;
(iv)
the Employee Termination Payments and the Subcontractor Losses;
(v)
any reasonable costs properly incurred by Project Co to wind up its operations; and
(vi)
an amount which, if paid on the Termination Date and taken together with all dividends and other Distributions paid on or made in respect of the Equity Capital on or before the Termination Date and taking account of the actual timing of all such payments, but, in any event, excluding all amounts (whether for costs, overhead, profit or otherwise) after the Termination Date, gives a nominal internal rate of return to the Termination Date equal to the Base Case Equity IRR on the amount paid for the Equity Capital (to the extent that such Equity Capital has been applied by Project Co for the purposes of the Project);
 
LESS, the aggregate (without double counting) of the following, to the extent it is a positive amount:
(vii)
all credit balances on any bank accounts held by or on behalf of Project Co on the Termination Date and the value of any insurance proceeds due to Project Co or to which Project Co would have been entitled had insurance been maintained in accordance with the requirements of this Project Agreement (save where such insurance proceeds are to be applied in reinstatement, restoration or replacement, or, in the case of third party legal liability, in satisfaction of the claim, demand, proceeding or liability or where HMQ is required to procure insurances and to make proceeds available to Project Co under this Project Agreement and it has failed to do so) or sums due and payable from third parties other than sums wholly unrelated to the Project Operations, the Project and this Project Agreement (but only when received from third parties) but excluding any claims under any Subcontracts or claims against other third parties which have not been determined or have been determined but not yet paid, provided that, in such case, Project Co shall assign any such rights and claims under the Subcontracts or claims against other third parties (other than claims against other third parties wholly unrelated to the Project Operations, the Project and this Project Agreement) to HMQ and, at no additional cost to Project Co, give HMQ reasonable assistance in prosecuting such claims;
(viii)
to the extent realized before the Invoice Date, the market value of any other assets and rights of Project Co (other than those transferred to HMQ pursuant to this Project Agreement) less liabilities of Project Co properly incurred in carrying out its obligations under this Project Agreement as at the Termination Date, provided that no account should be taken of any liabilities and obligations of Project Co arising out of:
(A)
agreements or arrangements entered into by Project Co to the extent that such agreements or arrangements were not entered into in connection with Project Co’s obligations in relation to the Project; or
(B)
agreements or arrangements entered into by Project Co other than in the ordinary course of business and on commercial arm’s length terms, save to the extent that liabilities and obligations would have arisen if such agreements or arrangements had been entered into in the ordinary course of business and on commercial arm’s length terms; and
(ix)
amounts which HMQ is entitled to set off pursuant to Section 34.13(a)(i) of this Project Agreement,
 
provided that the HMQ Default Termination Sum shall never be less than the aggregate of the Senior Debt Amount, the Senior Debt Makewhole, the Junior Debt Amount and the Junior Debt Makewhole.
(c)
To the extent that such assets and rights referred to in Section 2.1(b)(viii) of this Schedule 23 are not realized and applied pursuant thereto, Project Co shall, on payment of the HMQ Default Termination Sum, assign such assets and rights to HMQ.
(d)
HMQ shall pay the HMQ Default Termination Sum in accordance with Section 8 of this Schedule 23.
 

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